Animating the action-movie title with the Random and Shader effectors

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Join EJ Hassenfratz for an in-depth discussion in this video Animating the action-movie title with the Random and Shader effectors, part of Mograph Techniques: Movie Trailer Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects.

- Now to move on to animating our text…using the Mograph module.…Since we have beveled elements,…we will need to break up our text into individual letters…so the bevels stay with the text…once they're animated with effectors.…Let's go ahead and group our bevels and text together.…Just right-click and Group Objects.…What we're going to do is,…break this up into individual letters.…Let's actually make it easier…to break it up into individual letters.…We're going to use a little bit of XPresso,…and we're going to make it so…whatever we type in the name of the Null,…it'll actually change the text in our text object.…

Let's just do a little bit of really simple XPresso.…Let's go to Mograph's or Cinema 4D tags XPresso.…What we're going to do is,…have our Null ...…Actually, the name of our Null,…we can find in Basic Properties, Name.…We're going to have the name of our Null…feed into…this text field…on this Keyframers text object.…I'm going to click on this little node area here.…I'm going to go to Object Properties,…and we want to have that feed into this text field.…

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12/17/2014

Learn to create dynamic Hollywood-style title sequences for movie trailers, using the tools in CINEMA 4D. EJ Hassenfratz shows how to create attention-grabbing text elements, apply textures and lighting, and animate the titles in styles that suit two different genres: action flicks and fantasy films. Then you'll learn how to render the scene and bring the assets into After Effects, in order to composite them with live-action footage and preview the final trailers. These tutorials follow a real-world workflow, used in many of the leading Hollywood production studios.